BlockMount Sterling, Ohio
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43143. The Survey maps it on the Mount Sterling quadrangle. 1,945 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1906 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Mount Sterling
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Mount Sterling Historic Districtlisted 1974
Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 12 of 14 shown
- Presbyterian ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1901 to 1940
- Methodist Episcopal Church, ColoredChurch, in the atlas of 1901 to 1922
- Carter Wire Fence Machine CoMachine Shop, in the atlas of 1901 to 1910
- Christian ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1922
- Church to TempChurch, in the atlas of 1922
- Church, E. of MadisonChurch, in the atlas of 1922
- Exchange HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1901
- First Baptist ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1922
- Henkle, J. S., Planing MillPlaning Mill, in the atlas of 1901
- Jones & Jones, MillMill, in the atlas of 1910
- Post OfficeIce House, in the atlas of 1922
- Water Works & Elec. Light Plant, 1Works, in the atlas of 1910
Population over time
2 figuresMount Sterling grew from 1,782 to 1,945 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,782 | |
| 2020 | 1,945 | +163 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1906 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Mount Sterling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
5,665 words on this townshipHistory of Madison County, Ohio : Its People, Industries and Institution with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1915; History of Madison County Ohio, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Pleasant Township covers this township occupies the southeast corner of madison county, and the territory comprising it was one of the earliest settled portions of the county. this was doubtless brought about principally from its geographical position and its proximity to the older settled counties, especially that of boss, which in an early daj appears to have been the center, a kind of asylum for the emigrant, of this portion of the stati, from which they radiated and formed settlements in all the surrounding country, which was then an unbroken wilderness. from the ohio river up the valley of the scioto, early settlements were made, and chillicothe boob became the prin cipal trading point, upon the frontier. from this, as a base for supplies, the ever-onward pioneer and huntsman pushed up the scioto and its numerous tributaries, paint, deer and darby creeks; and it seems that the two lastmentioned streams were early visited by those in quest of game and a location, as it soon became known that along these streams were found plentiful herds of deer and immense flocks of wild turkeys, and what was more than all as good a body of land as the sun ever shone upon. as you ascend deer (.'reek some thirty to thirty five miles from its mouth, or where it empties its waters into the scioto, you strike the corner of madison county and the southeast corner of pleasant township.
Read the chapter on Pleasant Township - 5,665 words.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 90 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 90 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Sterling between 1909 and 1972: 80 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Brommer, R. & Moerchen, R. (Richard), Bureau of Fisheries, Charles O. Wingo Jr. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Obovaria olivaria (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1909 | Bureau of Fisheries | Ohio River, Wrightville |
 | Plethobasus cyphus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1909 | Bureau of Fisheries | Ohio River, Wrightville |
 | Potamilus alatus (Say, 1817) | 1909 | Bureau of Fisheries | Ohio River, Wrightville |
 | Necturus maculosus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1929 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Oak Run, Madison Co., Ohio |
 | Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817) | 1940 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township |
 | Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819) | 1940 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township |
 | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1940 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township |
 | Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856 | 1940 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township |
 | Esox americanus Gmelin, 1789 | 1940 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township |
 | Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1940 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township |
 | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1940 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township |
 | Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819 | 1940 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township |
All 90 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McClimansville | 0.7 miles | 10 | |
| Burr Oaks Heights | 0.7 miles | 10 | |
| Antioch | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| McKendree | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Chenoweth | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Nioga (historical) | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Kiousville | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Bethel | 6.8 miles | 10 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Mount Sterling | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2441740 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065077. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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